Claim
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2540 examples of Claim in a sentence
Each could lay
claim
to the title, "The Ship of Theseus," but only would could actually be the real thing.
We already have many programs that
claim
to do just that, taking a word, sentence, or entire book in one language and translating it into almost any other, whether it's modern English or Ancient Sanskrit.
Today, doctors still uphold Cartwright's
claim
the black people as a race have lower lung capacity than white people.
The lawyer brings you to the safe, and you
claim
your inheritance.
Now, people on the radio, especially on NPR, are much more aware that they're going on the record, and so they're more careful about what they
claim
to be an expert in and what they
claim
to know for sure.
Unfortunately, speakers can also manipulate people with false information that the audience thinks is true, such as the debunked but still widely believed
claim
that vaccines cause autism.
Both groups
claim
to base their ideology on their holy book.
She's worried that someday the state will
claim
her life for its own purposes to protect itself from danger.
Brazil has adopted a pioneering approach where over 2,000 Syrians have been able to get humanitarian visas, enter Brazil, and
claim
refugee status on arrival in Brazil.
Between 1922 and 1942, these Nansen passports were used as travel documents to allow 450,000 Assyrians, Turks and Chechens to travel across Europe and
claim
refugee status elsewhere in Europe.
And he made this
claim
based on the fact that the first humans described in these books behaved consistently, in different traditions and in different places of the world, as if they were hearing and obeying voices that they perceived as coming from the Gods, or from the muses ... what today we would call hallucinations.
In other words, I claim, if we really want to improve our judgment as individuals and as societies, what we need most is not more instruction in logic or rhetoric or probability or economics, even though those things are quite valuable.
That's nearly 28 percent of the cabinet, and more than many developed countries can
claim.
By prioritizing care, men are, in a sense, staking their
claim
to the full range of human existence.
Let's look at that
claim.
So sight is one third of your brain by volume and can
claim
about two thirds of your brain's processing resources.
My
claim
is that understanding has to do with the ability to change your perspective.
So that is my
claim.
And my
claim
is that mathematics has to do with patterns.
And I
claim
that when you change your perspective, and if you take another point of view, you learn something new about what you are watching or looking at or hearing.
And my
claim
is that you understand something if you have the ability to view it from different perspectives.
And those of us who
claim
to be experts should recognize the limitations of our analysis.
I actually read about Emma's story from the pages of a legal opinion written by a judge who had dismissed Emma's
claim
of race and gender discrimination against a local car manufacturing plant.
But of course, neither African-American men or white women needed to combine a race and gender discrimination
claim
to tell the story of the discrimination they were experiencing.
You didn't
claim
to be anything.
And now somewhere at the intersection of these four trends, of wakefulness and hope and mightiness and interconnectedness, there is a burgeoning, multifaith justice movement in this country that is staking a
claim
on a countertrend, saying that religion can and must be a force for good in the world.
How well do you know the area you
claim
to represent?
The ones that see women as having less intrinsic worth, and of men having some unspoken and symbolic
claim
to their bodies.
And in a lot of states, you're actually better off if you took the images of yourself because then you can file a copyright
claim.
So to
claim
that we're post-race when we have yet to grapple with the impact of race on black people, Latinos or the indigenous is disingenuous.
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